ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,009, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Vehicle fuel level estimation" was invented by Vikram Krishnamurthy (Marietta, Ga.), Timothy O'Donnell (Franklin, Tenn.) and Lawrence Rosinski (Brentwood, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating fuel consumptions of a vehicle is disclosed. A first fuel consumption value in a first time interval is estimated using fuel-sender resistance data. A second fuel consumption value in a second time interval is estimated using fuel-injected mass data. At least the first fuel consumption value and the second fuel consumption value are combined to obtai...